The ambition remains, along with the hunger to remain on the bleeding edge, but she's allowing her past to mingle with her present, allowing her to seem human yet somewhat grander at the same time.
The idea of Madonna as an indestructible spirit of pop runs rampant through her mostly excellent thirteenth studio album Rebel Heart, a record whose strengths are timeless and whose faults are somewhat more modern.
Her essential interests are unchanging -- dancefloor ecstasy, European balladry, 1960s pop classicism -- but her expression of them finds new articulations.
There are moments throughout Rebel Heart where Madonna carves out new, exhilarating territory for both herself and mainstream pop at large.
Rebel Heart is a long, passionate, self-referential meditation on losing love and finding purpose in chilling times.
For all its flaws, there’s something undeniably addictive about Rebel Heart, and even the songs that don’t work so well are still a million times better than anything gathered on MDNA or Hard Candy.
Madonna endures because she’s never been afraid to own her imperfections, and be emotionally forthright about, well, everything. Rebel Heart finds her doing both of those things, and the music is better for it.
Rebel Heart is chaotic. It’s often amazing, and occasionally crap .If she deleted half of its tracks, it’d be the comeback record she was hoping for.
Rebel Heart is the first Madonna album for a while that's at least as much for listeners as it is for dancers. Sometimes this shines too hard a light on what she has to say.
Rebel Heart almost gets the balance right, but at 19 tracks, most in the industrial party-pop style of cheeseball producers Diplo and Avicii, there's simply too much going on.
Rebel Heart is that long because it is essentially two separate albums. One is wistful and thick with reflections on failed love affairs and intimations of self-doubt ... The other offers dirty talk and defiant I’m-still-here snarls set to EDM-inspired productions, frequently the handiwork of Diplo.
Even in the record's clunkier moments, it's gratifying to hear Madonna leaning defiantly (and gleefully) into what many would consider to be the less savory elements of her personality.
Rebel Heart has a profoundly human element to it, one that paints Madonna more as a person than a product, which is in and of itself a minor miracle.
For every godawful moment, which come and go with a sad frequency on Rebel Heart, there are glimmers of virtuosity buried within the overworked mess.
Rebel Heart grows confusing and irreconcilably uneven as it progresses.
Rebel Heart leans too steeply into too many trends at once, making it a scattered affair that flashes between drudgery and brilliance.
A proposta do Coração Rebelde da Madonna era mostrar nas faixas a dualidade da cantora, que possui um lado selvagem e corajoso e também um lado romântico e sensível, mas o disco acaba se perdendo nesse conceito e se tornando apenas uma playlist de pop desorganizada.
A falta de coesão nesse trabalho é até de se estranhar vindo de uma artista do naipe da Madonna que em álbuns anteriores se esforçava para manter a mesma ... read more
Por mais que hajam músicas boas, em conjunto "Rebel Heart" é uma bagunça.
"Rebel Heart", funciona como um testamento da carreira de Madonna, tudo que ela sempre se mostrou por tantos anos de carreira se revelam nas decorrentes 19 faixas, ao mesmo tempo que ainda abre espaço para a sua vulnerabilidade pessoal - o que faz dessas faixas, principalmente da edição deluxe serem as melhores, e estranhamente até as ... read more
I enjoyed the first half a lot because of the diversity of sounds, however, the second half sounds like MDNA outtakes and everything is very repeated.
Although, I deeply appreciate that you left out vocoder and autotune.
Favorites:Living For Love, Ghosttown, Hold Tight, Joan Of Arc, HeartBreakCity
Least Favorite: Illuminati
WE KNEW IT FROM THE START DEEP DOWN FROM OUR REBEL HEARTS! The queen of pop's 2015 album is decent at best. Rebel Heart is not every fan's favorite album, but I liked listening to this album. It's not as bad as everyone says it is, because it's actually listenable and the message is worth listening to. My only problem in this album is that some of them felt like fillers or bland tracks. I also didn't like how autotuned Madonna's voice because I really love her natural voice, and I think it ... read more
1 | Living For Love 3:38 | 84 |
2 | Devil Pray 4:05 | 81 |
3 | Ghosttown 4:09 | 87 |
4 | Unapologetic Bitch 3:51 | 65 |
5 | Illuminati 3:44 | 59 |
6 | Bitch I'm Madonna 3:47 feat. Nicki Minaj | 72 |
7 | Hold Tight 3:37 | 70 |
8 | Joan of Arc 4:01 | 78 |
9 | Iconic 4:33 feat. Chance the Rapper, Mike Tyson | 64 |
10 | HeartBreakCity 3:33 | 72 |
11 | Body Shop 3:39 | 60 |
12 | Holy Water 4:09 | 65 |
13 | Inside Out 4:23 | 70 |
14 | Wash All Over Me 4:01 | 73 |
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